demands justice for the tragic death of a three year old russian boy allegedly killed by his adoptive mother in texas the u.s. state department seems reluctant to cooperate with the investigation. i would like an explanation just why we grant him asylum why on earth newly reelected ecuador and president rafael correa tells r.t. he won't back down from the west after being pressured over granting asylum to the son. and with reports that up to four children a day are caught with weapons in british schools takes a look at how the worrying trend is being tackled.

up to the minute news twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm kerry johnston. russia is demanding answers as to why a three year old boy died allegedly at the hands of his adoptive mother in the united states. to the grim statistic of twenty russian children who died after being adopted by americans a few weeks ago a new dawn came into effect in russia banning u.s. citizens from bringing russian children into their families because of abuse in the case of maxine there's a little help forthcoming from the u.s. state department. explains from new york. that this case unfolded in texas according to officials three year old maxime died on january twenty first at the hands of his adoptive mother the probe conducted by russia's investigative

committee revealed that maksim was beaten by his adoptive mother who according to officials also fed him strong psychotropic medication and investigators say that the boy allegedly died before medics arrived at the scene but that it was his adoptive mother who had called the medics to begin with an autopsy reportedly show that nexium suffered multiple injuries to his head his abdomen and internal organs prior to his death officials say the three year old boy's arms legs and head were also covered in scratches and bruises this is just one of twenty cases when a russian adopted child dies in the custody of an american family here in the states some examples include back in two thousand and eight a russian boy died after spending nine hours in a car with temperatures reaching up to thirty two degrees celsius but his adoptive father faced up to ten years in jail for manslaughter however he was found not

guilty and walked free there was a case in which an american mother. boarded her adoptive russian son on a flight to moscow and giving him just a note saying she doesn't want to be his mother anymore in the few weeks past few weeks russia did adopt legislation banning u.s. adoptions of russian children it was criticized by many saying that it prevents russian children from having a better life in american families russian officials say that the new law it's targeting the u.s. legal system that according to russian officials has been treating cases of russian children of cruel treatment to manslaughter with it admissible leniency. given to them fortunately it's usually months although the russian child has done to the american side informs us about it and want. it was five years after a little boy died and that's how our cooperation with us works if they do not informants fast enough or the information is not reliable right tens of thousands

of russian adopted children leaving in the us and we haven't got a clue about the lives of most of them there is no confirmation that they're all right and they're not being if we really do what they do want to share it's an investigation into the death. maxime is still ongoing to find out greater details. well you know the u.s. promised a more thorough investigation of the abuse of russian children by their adoptive american families but really been who's written widely on international adoption says the long standing problem still hasn't been properly addressed this is the ongoing problem and what russia has been demanding from from the u.s. for years is follow what the united states is not set up to follow up on adoptions once their final ones that's been a thorn in the side of russian officials for good reason with the now twenty cases of abuse that have resulted in the death of these twenty four we don't know how

many other children are. living with abuse or you know that haven't died from it well russia is investigative committees now looking into how and why maxine mckew is mean died off the what was supposed to be a new life with a new family in his adoptive america we have more on the story at r.t. dot com. dorian lee the rafael correa has promised four more years of revolution after sweeping victory secured him

a third term on sunday when all teams spanish channel spoke to the reelected president as he gave up for his final four year run at the helm korea was especially vocal on helping the world's top whistleblower joining the son's remains ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy in london. sort of yes it does in a practical sense for the practical implication of julian assange the situation is up to europe to resolve it the problem will be solved if the u.k.'s largest safe passage moderately but hasn't been any intention to disrupt the prosecution process according to the swedish justices doesn't it in spite of the nearest misinformed allegations see if they send the prosecutors and was embassy in britain so the recording interrogation video which they can do it would under twist this not steal the bodies i think really had. it was never even officially presented with the charges it was on his lawyer the thousands of dollars on it's lucky at the european court and achieved a safe passage for sandra to staying z.x. a jury member saying the situation we finally resolved it is all now your hands but

there is a lot of arrogance involved here and neocolonial sentiment to this they would like us to offer explanations as to why we grant him asylum wouldn't they why on earth there's more that they even want us to but drunk on our decision we will never do this or put up with us. or career upset the u.s. britain and sweden with that decision to grant asylum to the we can expound the back in august activist and radio show host. so the ecuadorian president is enjoying popularity at home partly because of policies which stand up to the white house. the sentiment on the ground with most ecuadorians as well as the growing sentiment throughout latin america is that those who continue to align themselves with the u.s. unconditionally are not going to find support from the people the people who eventually are the ones who are going to be casting their ballots during these elections where has been outspoken against us the new york colonization is has been an outspoken against the neo liberal agenda and us imperialism person quite

sometime folks are done with this whole role model where we're going to continue to be can you know continuously in perpetuity dependent on us and if it's corporate interest that that those days are done hopefully the career is very well aware of the fact that the u.s. uses net national indomie for democracy and the national democratic institute as an organization as they go in and their their primary role is to destabilize democratically elected governments and to bits and to topple them as ronald reagan said in one thousand and three when he started the national debt and dollar for democracy he said he wanted them to operate like the cia but just overtly and covertly. they are struggling to get its economy growing the u.k. is now knocking on india's trade doors prime minister david cameron is in the british former colony urging it to open up more investment in the u.k. delegation includes business leaders from more than one hundred companies several

ministers and m.p.'s once said to be the biggest ever team taken abroad by prime minister cameron claimed india and britain were on track to double trade between them by twenty fifteen now he wants the u.k. to become a new delhi's partner of choice and best has been craving for india to free up regulations for years last week french president francois hollande was also innings yet to come out to deal the story and he says it in faces challenges in winning over new day that's why. the size of the delegation certainly show the aggressive nature of far right mr cameron's drive to seek trade abroad right now prime minister cameron is not the best friend all the rest of the specially france and germany so i think the interests of the two countries france and britain are quite separate britain feels that because of the historic on relationship

with india. britain can. then perhaps first with the indian government how well i would say this the historical memory of colonial rule. doesn't sit very well with the indians still. well the kids are not all right certainly not in british close rooms we investigate why weapons in school bags are becoming widely widespread among peoples in the u.k. the study reveals a kind of bonnets that's just ahead. one of the most sensitive lots of london the west bank israel's construction plans in the new palestinian area well that's off the right. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. welcome to the big picture. he. used. to. say.

timor well the news for you now. well as we mentioned earlier struggling to get its economy growing the u.k. is now knocking on india's trade doors prime minister david cameron is in the british former colony edging it open up more investment let's get some more expert analysis from new delhi and talk with vesa charlier from the school of international affairs thanks for joining us on r.t. well david cameron is leading the biggest ever trade delegation how high are the stakes for the u.k.'s efforts well as you know arm britain is a little predicted to enter a triple dip recession. and investment business opportunities

especially for its financial sector are seen as a new section you know to try and get around the structure and the little bit increasing attention the british are paying to large emerging economies which have huge consumer come to market and it's obvious that the secretary for the british prime minister in barely three months is a sign of the description as well as of the need they have to try and play with a five year. export markets beyond the traditional european ones which are in a very calm it was condition for the last five years what indeed i mean cameron has described britain's with a some shit with india as special what's so special about it. well you know there are historical and i said the shared heritage of the english language there's the old colonial past because a mixed legacy where i think he's trying to free me to

a special one on the same lines of a special relationship between britain and the united states but i must see that the u.k. the u.s. relationship is one we're looking at has been a subservient to your partner and certainly what we would like to see here. and in relationship that is on a level footing and based on mutual benefits and interests between india so i would rather every from such phrases you know article didn't reach relationship when the point is that you know. he's been seen as important to france all along was here recently and there is almost like a bee line of major parts that are trying to call good will in here especially because of the mystic consumption based economy and this pressure i mean it has to be special only if it's clear and credible and that is a point in the years that. not to expect an older model because we.

are. actually more you'll. actually got the british words and you would rather one equal in sovereign equals and we're really concerns regarding. let me just interrupt if i may i mean you mentioned investors there are clamoring for a slice of india success among the bargaining chips of warplanes now britain is trying to get interest in its fighter and france he mentioned the present along there is touting its jets so who's got the better charts do you think of securing india as a main trading partner. well the french are all stars and a lot of the deal last year but there are there are. carrying on the british are trying to climb don't know quite a wedge in these negotiations and to come back to that we kill but at the moment. he put it in the fridge and look like you are with the r r r study and

still not a preacher but i think we're going to be opportunistic and they want to where you can see how did you shoot a ball and are widely and this may also not want to close the door on any kind of oxygen for the best bargaining the price and quality it's also sorry i don't know because he didn't want our technology transfer and all said some of those kind of things along with there be some supporters of this and they will try to leave but at the moment. this i think just taking a chance why bandleaders you don't like her back because last year they were pretty upset that they lost it to the french and in fact it was tied to my beat and pretty development aid to egypt is there not why no objects then why should we give them eight and then you know it's actually we don't even need to eight so this isn't going to be going to be eight so i decided before look it's reaching a stage where the skills are rebalancing in water polo these emerging economies that when we saw what we didn't find the u.s. it's predicted that you know india would overtake many of these unwanted economy

simply to eat it's not beholden he was a whore he decides so therefore i think they need to do to give a greater difference and they need to also respect. more i must mention the courts in sight but also in the investor say that you know he gave these people please because it's always clarkson and i agree that these but at the same time there are foreign sources of course up to the someplace site and us companies where i would be went morning instead and so i think what we got after they got that but thank you for those insights expert insights from the story of how the f. on the school of international affairs i knew that a thank you. well schools should be a safe place but in britain a disturbing number of pupils in class armed with knives a knuckle dusters a recent nationwide study shows four hundred children a day are being suspended because of the threatening behavior of the sara firth met a youth worker for whom violence at school was the norm. you probably

end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you know our parent is gone our courage is not for no for teaching them to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of britain's schoolchildren despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day with weapons in persists cools guns knives and knuckle dusters just some of the items confiscated by police are remember we're always searching the school and. gone to the school. and i see this first gun about to fire or schools are supposed to be a safe secure environment where the focus is on education the thinkers have revealed that hundreds of weapons are being seized in schools every year with the

number of violent incidents on the rise the reality for many schools across the bay is that your classmate can quickly become your enemy and the school playground can be a dangerous place but it's not only the peoples who are subject to violence in london alone this being more than four thousand assaults on teachers by people's over the past year is it's a shocking indication of the levels of fine in the school it becomes normal to. get involved in this you get sucked into this last hour thinking violence is the best approach. it's just waking up in the morning and going for run yeah after a while it becomes normal to you stephen is now working with us charity x l p thirty nine hundred ninety six after school stabbing founded patrick regan has been helping young people tackle gun culture and violence

a member could come. to me when a bulletproof vest underneath a school uniform. according to patrick it's early intervention which is key in prison is forty thousand pounds a year young person's secure unit is one hundred sixty five thousand pounds a year a murder can be a million pounds a year to investigate so actually you know if we intervene earlier keep kids in education keep that sense of a safe place an environment where they can grow and flourish then it is far better and that doesn't take into consideration the emotional course you know i have to deal with people who've lost their sons and their daughters the gun and knife crime and you can't so we have to address. the problem of violence in schools is nothing new one it's not something you're likely to read about in a school prospectus and it's particularly acute in the country's deprived in a city or schools on the whole do not want the public to know that they have a problem with children bringing weapons onto the premises so they do not readily

give the information so i guess the problem is significant all they teach is can now say people's if they suspect they're carrying a weapon many theel politicians are still failing to sit up and take notice and until more it's done to address the problem the children who attend these schools will continue to learn these lessons. r.t. . some of the stories are to dot com is covering right now gets a v.i.p. visit but not that you'd notice french president is there but receiving a rather quiet welcome because a media strike has caused a news blackout keeping it all very nice online. also banking on banksy piece by the mysterious renowned street artist which was in the u.k. resurfaces in the us it's up for auction to r.t. dot com. well look at our some other world

news now starting with yemen where a military helicopter has crashed in the capital at least nine people injuring dozens more number of casualties are expected to rise because the aircraft plunge into a building containing shops and homes it happened in change square and saw no more than revolution which ousted the previous leader two years ago and began. striking workers from spanish airline i've been area have clashed at madrid's main port during attempts to clear a room of a protest in crowds of various star for don't work out against plans to cut the four thousand jobs spanish try to merge with british airways and twenty ten pressed his plane u.k. based bosses cuts well the strikes have already grounded hundreds of flights expected to cost the sprocket. lives.

in as well as president chavez has returned home after two months of treatment in cuba with cancer you know it's his unexpected comeback on twitter and several messages breaking his silence in the since early november fifty eight year old's absence from his own inauguration ceremony prompted opposition. demands new reaction. thousands of rockets in the west bank to larger cities in support of hunger strikers held in israeli jails israeli forces dispersed dozens of palestinians who blocked a road in one city some staging a protest in un office rather than strangers want to take action for better treatment of the prisoners. released public anger flared up around certainty of their fate with claims they're in good condition had been wrongfully detained. well despite growing anger in the west bank and u.n. calls to stop a settlement expansion there israel is showing no intentions of freezing its plans

late last year the israeli government pledged thousands more homes the long disputed area known as the one vital corridor between large palestinian areas middle east correspondent paula sneer reports on how the construction could prove fatal for any potential palestinian state its rugged and remarkable landscape largely empty but full of meaning this is one of the west bank's most sensitive pieces of real estate for fourteen years plans to build here have existed but were kept on hold but all of that changed last november less than twenty four hours after the u.n. general assembly recognize palestine is a nonmember observer state tel aviv fast track to construction plans here prompting the palestinian government to call it a slap in the face of the entire world. this plan to build here is not legal according to international law which states that when one country occupies another change facts on the ground israel is doing exactly that while also getting people

out of their lands soley for the benefit of the settlers. known as the one this controversial patch of earth exists between east jerusalem where palestinians aspire to establish the capital of a future palestinian state and the huge israeli settlement of ma'ale adumim it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank and if plans go ahead in the israelis extend this area it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see that palestinians fear it's part of

a long term strategy to extend the one and to build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a part of ongoing policy that has been growing for years now in at the end to grab palestinian land but first the israelis need to get rid of the people who live here among them around three arab jerusalem neighborhoods and one hundred fifty bed ones for whom this has been home for nearly half a century mohammad cushion is angry he says tel aviv doesn't want him and his tribe here but it also refuses to allow them to return to their original village in the negev desert from where they fled after the creation of the state in one nine hundred forty eight when a lot of them it is discrimination they give the settlers everything they want we're as we do not ask for anything besides laying in the land and they want to evacuated us and our children live surrounded by war it's like being in a prison one of them that they will grow up and will not make peace in the future

with an israeli side was a lot tel aviv complains the bed when camps were set up eagerly without permits. and stand in the way of urban planning but critics say this is just an excuse for a land grab it makes me furious this dump site is going to harm the environment and it's going to harm the health of the people and they make it harder and harder to find a solution for the situation demolition orders have already been issued threatening to destroy the last remnants of bedwyn life in these hills and while israeli officials say the construction anyone if it happens at all is many years away it cuts to the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict which fundamentally is about the land and the fate of the people who live on it policy or r.t. in the west bank or going on the rails now to celebrate new year a few minutes meet the russians who entertain on the train.